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  1. Southern Africa

    By Jonathan Farley

    Series: The Making of the Contemporary World

    Southern Africa surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one short succinct volume. Positioning the collapse of Portugal’s African Empire in the context of the region’s...

    Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge

  2. The History of Africa

    The Quest for Eternal Harmony

    By Molefi Kete Asante

    This book provides a wide-ranging history of Africa from earliest prehistory to the present day – using the cultural, social, political, and economic lenses of Africa as instruments to illuminate the ordinary lives of Africans. The result is a fresh survey that includes a wealth of indigenous ideas...

    Published March 25th 2007 by Routledge

  3. A History of Africa

    4th Edition

    By John Fage, with William Tordoff

    A History of Africa is a thorough narrative history of the continent from its beginnings to the twenty-first century. Long established at the forefront of African Studies, this book addresses the events of the 1990s and beyond. The issues discussed include: post-apartheid South Africa ...

    Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge

  4. The Decolonization Of Africa

    By Professor David Birmingham, David Birmingham

    This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when non-racial democracy was achieved in South Africa, no less than 54 new nations...

    Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge